Thank you very much for the pic and the links!

I can't wait for TPF and SIM either. In my opinion, SETI is a serious long-shot and not likely to succeed as currently conceived. I'm sure SETI will evolve over the decades, so who knows what it may accomplish in the long run? In the meantime, since SETI's listening-for-beacons strategy is the dark horse, NASA's Origins is the pony to bet on.

So I'm with you. Can't wait. Want to see some progress in my life-time, but realistic enough to realize all this may not really get going until our kids (or grandkids) are having kids of their own. Some of us here may not live to see these things.

Which is too bad, I guess, but that's life. Whether we all make it to see some of these things or not, I'm sure our species will continue to make slow but steady progress. The world-changing event of discovering another living world will almost certainly happen.

So let's hurry up and find it!
: )